That just screams gimmicky marketing. If you want to get excited about a chocolatey dark beer, try something with a better reputation: Young's Double Chocolate Stout shouldn't be hard for you to get as it's made in the UK. That one is pretty damn nice. The chocolate is subtle enough it doesn't over...

The biggest difference between air/ground units in sc2 is upgrades. Making both kinds of units is easy enough, but if you don't have upgrades they are less effective than they should be, and you can't normally afford to get every different upgrade path.

Decide to have a quick match last night before heading to the pub. 1v1 Z(me)vP. He tries to cannon rush me, I spotted it and defended it as by the time he had his first cannons down I had a spine crawler, second hatch and my roach warren. He can't touch me, I destroy his probe and the cannons and w...

I do not trust social networks. They do not exist for the purpose of facilitating your interactions with your friends. They exist for the purpose of mining the (very rich) metadata that is made up of who you know, what people you know do, what people you know like, and where people you know go (as ...

homework: if you play at peak/off hours compare the number of points you gain/lose on overage. if it's higher during off hours, it's just mmr giving you a wider spread of people to play vs. to reduce wait times.

Dunno. In my experience, off hours players are overall worse. Can't really say why. Maybe because people are more likely to be tired or drunk, and you're more likely to play against people who are cross region? Cross region should be irrelevant... just cause I'm playing from Aus with high ping does...

Is it just sticking basically everyone in gold? Nah, I went from M -> D on NA. It seems to be rather conservative with placements now (demoting most people not very high in their league) that it can't demote during the season to correct. If you're getting promoted I'd assume your MMR was just prett...

So I was top 8 diamond last season. Gave SC2 a rest for a couple of weeks because of work. Play my promotion match, and get demoted to gold...?! a large number of people get demoted on placement now... Because of the silly "can't demote during season" thing they pulled they seem to have d...

I need a good Terran build (no 2 rax reaper plz), and also my macro still got a long way to go. I've also lost my sense of timing and mini-map awareness. :( I guess I have a huge hole to climb out of bronze.. 12 Rax 15 gas 15 orbital. 2 marines then reactor second depot @400 minerals -> expand @100...

Guiness Extra Stout + Fresh Blueberries. While the effect here isn't what most people are probably going for with food/beer pairings, it's extremely tasty. The thick bitter taste of the stout ends up making the blueberries taste incredibly sweet (where as I usually think of blueberries as being jus...

Does it count as smurfing/sandbagging/whatever if the player who throws the game is playing unranked? I 'won' a TvT against a player without any league matches this season, who had a best league placement of diamond in 1v1s last season. Now, he wasn't as obnoxious as some other smurfs I played agai...

FT: It's been a long time since I posted in this thread... EDIT: what'd you bastards do to my avatar when I wasn't looking. :( Were you a friend of FF00BF? If so, it got eaten by mod madness. I remember it disappeared as part of that a few years ago. As did titles. But it was put back, and I kept m...

It's been a while. But if anyone still checks, I miss you all and we should hang out. Also I will have a Gojoe permanently (more so than usual) as of April. Gojoe is pretty enticing. Tegan! <3. Has been a while. But I'm still subscribed to this thread so I got an email that you replied. We should d...

Been playing some SC2 again. Back to terran again. A 30 week absence dropped got me placed in bronze again. My mechanics are so awkward. Down to like 30-50 APM. How has the metagame shifted in TvP as of late? Protoss is the only race that's giving me trouble right now, especially in the early game....

Without knowing details, I'd hypothesize that (part of) the differences could be due to mechanical skill differences. My friend who got me into SC always said that in Brood War, terrans needed a very high APM to play effectively. If folks on the Korean ladder get more practice or something like tha...

I played two games this morning. Lost the first one pretty bad and won the second one pretty good. I compare a game from Searing Crater from a few months ago to a game on Metalopolis today an the difference is remarkable. I keep my money fairly low, I'm mostly on-time with my larva injects, and hav...

Just to have one more thing to say on this topic, in a bit of contrast to what I posted before: I don't really -like- that GOM punished him, but as I said, I understand. What I really don't like though, is that his fans continue to support his decision to effectively forfeit the game. To make an (po...

I read somewhere (reddit?) that there are some cheating players around in Code A/S that weren't punished nearly as heavily as Naniwa. Is this true? I don't really care about the dude, but it kinda sounds hypocritical if this is true. The only things I can think of are the CoCa incident, where GOM d...

Blizzard Cup: So many foreign fan favourites in one group one of them has to get through! (Hero, Stephano and to some extent DRG) Be there, or be sensible by being asleep at 4am US time. Or have it start about 10 minutes after you get home from work/gym cause you live in Australia... (One of the re...

Reactor hellion opening vZ, get a starport with tech lab, make raven then swap starport and factory for siege and medivacs. 200 gas that early, getting a starport and raven before tanks. I hope you make at least 1-2 marauders so you don't just completely roll to the zergs who like to see 4 helliona...

For a while it became the done thing to get a Raven in vZ, and then infestor/BL became the done thing and bio fell out of favour, so Ravens weren't as necessary since burrowed banelings vs Mech isn't as good. I mean, I -really- want to just build ravens every game. Mobile detection moving around on...

That's probably for the best. I was waiting for a joke about crabs though... Aren't you only supposed to get cross positions on Shattered Temple and Metalopolis in S4? Why is it every game I've played on these maps has been close positions then? Seriously, I've played several games on these maps si...

Speakings of FFAs, Day9 is currently airing subscriber FFAs. Where he chooses the worst FFA maps ever. The upcoming game is going to be on megaton, the 4v4 map with a shared main. T is completely fucked then... not much you can do about a 6 pool or cannon rush from that close. But i think the best ...

Doing all that maths is fine... but it assumes that you get to do everything in a straight up fight with pure blinkstalkers. Either you make a few zealots to help tank chargelots (charge upgrade is less useful in this battle) while you pick off voids or you abuse terrain by blinking up and down clif...

The correct response is obviously to go blink stalkers. I guess you either add phoenix (to kiill voids, harass and lift up half their zealots) or archons. And aren't blink stalkers still a very common PvP build?